Just to get us started, I'll put up a few -- feel free to add, because this just begins to scratch the surface. SC
On English as a discipline:
Arthur Applebee (1996). Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Robert Yagelski Scott A. Leonard. (2002). The Relevance of English: Teaching that Matters in Students' Lives. NCTE
Miles Myers (1996) Changing Our Minds: Negotiating English and Literacy. NCTE
Related areas: Social theory, critical theory, literacy studies:
James Collins and Richard K. Blot (2003). Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
M. M. Bakhtin (1934/1981). Discourse in the Novel. In Holquist (Ed.) The Dialogic Imagination, Emerson & Holquist, trans. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 259-422.
M. M. Bakhtin (1952/1986). The problem of speech genres. In Emerson & Holquist (Eds.) Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. McGee, trans. Austin: Uinversity of Texas Press, pp. 60-102.
Elizabeth Ellsworth (1999). Why Doesn't this Feel Empowering? Working through the Repressive Myths of Critical
Pedagogy, in C.Luke & J. Gore (Eds.) Feminisms and critical pedagogy. New York: Routledge.
Deborah Brandt & Katie Clinton (2002). Limits of the local: Expanding perspectives on literacy as a social practice. Journal of Literacy Research 34: 337-356.
On teaching literature:
Carol D. Lee (2007). Culture, Literacy and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind. NY: Teachers College Press.
Dennis Sumara (2002). Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters: Imagination, Interpretation, Insight. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Peter Rabinowitz & Michael Smith (1998). Authorizing Readers: Resistance and Respect in the Teaching of Literature. New York: Teachers College Press.
On Writing:
Peter Smagorinsky (Ed.) (2006). Research on Composition: Multiple Perspectives on Two Decades of Change. NY: Teachers College Press.
Charles Bazerman & Paul Prior (Eds). (2004). What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
On multimodal literacies, technology integration, and New Literacy Studies:
New London Group (1996) A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies. Harvard Ed Review.
Gunther Kress (2003). Literacy in the New Media Age. London: Routledge.
Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel (2003) New Literacies: Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning. Buckingham: Open University Press.
David Buckingham (2003). Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture. Cambridge: Polity.
On English as a discipline:
Arthur Applebee (1996). Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Robert Yagelski Scott A. Leonard. (2002). The Relevance of English: Teaching that Matters in Students' Lives. NCTE
Miles Myers (1996) Changing Our Minds: Negotiating English and Literacy. NCTE
Related areas: Social theory, critical theory, literacy studies:
James Collins and Richard K. Blot (2003). Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
M. M. Bakhtin (1934/1981). Discourse in the Novel. In Holquist (Ed.) The Dialogic Imagination, Emerson & Holquist, trans. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 259-422.
M. M. Bakhtin (1952/1986). The problem of speech genres. In Emerson & Holquist (Eds.) Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. McGee, trans. Austin: Uinversity of Texas Press, pp. 60-102.
Cynthia Lewis, Patricia Enciso, and Elizabeth Moje. (2007). Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Power Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Elizabeth Ellsworth (1999). Why Doesn't this Feel Empowering? Working through the Repressive Myths of Critical
Pedagogy, in C.Luke & J. Gore (Eds.) Feminisms and critical pedagogy. New York: Routledge.
Deborah Brandt & Katie Clinton (2002). Limits of the local: Expanding perspectives on literacy as a social practice. Journal of Literacy Research 34: 337-356.
On teaching literature:
Carol D. Lee (2007). Culture, Literacy and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind. NY: Teachers College Press.
Dennis Sumara (2002). Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters: Imagination, Interpretation, Insight. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Peter Rabinowitz & Michael Smith (1998). Authorizing Readers: Resistance and Respect in the Teaching of Literature. New York: Teachers College Press.
On Writing:
Peter Smagorinsky (Ed.) (2006). Research on Composition: Multiple Perspectives on Two Decades of Change. NY: Teachers College Press.
Charles Bazerman & Paul Prior (Eds). (2004). What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
On multimodal literacies, technology integration, and New Literacy Studies:
New London Group (1996) A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies. Harvard Ed Review.
Gunther Kress (2003). Literacy in the New Media Age. London: Routledge.
Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel (2003) New Literacies: Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning. Buckingham: Open University Press.
David Buckingham (2003). Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture. Cambridge: Polity.